Improvement in eyeglasses



A. SER l N.

Eye-Glasses.

No.l48,l47. Patented Marchsnam.

Mmm,

UNITED STATES -PATENT OFFICE AUGUSTE sEnIn, or NEW YORK, n. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN EYEGLASSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118.1117, dated March 3, 1874 application filed February 3, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTE SERiN, ofthe city and State of New York, have invented an Improvementin Spectacles and Eyeglasses, ot' which the following is a specification:

The glasses of spectacles and eyeglasses are usually received into a metal frame, but iu some instances the frame has been dispensed with, and the handle, spring, bows, or other connecting devices, have. been attached directly` to the glass by means of screws -passing through holes in the glass and uniting thereto the metallic clip connections. In this mode of construction, the glass is so much weakened, by the hole passing through the same, as to be easily broken.

My invention is made for obvia-tin g the dauger ot' breakage, and consists in a clip with inward projectionsv upon the ends that enter cavities in the glass and firmly hold the same, and to these clips the handle, bow, springs, or other parts of the spectacle are attached.

In the drawing, Figure l shows an ordinary character of spectacle. Fig. 2 is an elevation,

and Fig. 3 a section in larger size, of the clip separately.

ter shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the armst' o having projections 2 at their inner ends; and these arms t o are made together or united outside y the edge of the glass. There are cavities provided in the' surfaces of the glasses a for receiving the projections 2, and the screws r draw the arms z" and o together, and firmly clamp the glass, and with little or no risk of breaking the same.

I claim as my invention v The projections 2 at the ends of the arms t o, entering cavities in the glass, and forming metallic clips for connecting the glass to the other parts of the spectacle or eyeglass, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 30th day of January, A. D. 1874.

AUGUSTE sEnrN.

Wlitnesses GEo. T. PINCKNEY, UHAs. H. SMITH. 

